Will you give me the key ?" They all started and turned about.
"Why, here's our chance to get the firearms!" Riach cried; and then to me: "Hark ye, David," he said, "do ye ken where the pistols are ?" "Ay, ay," put in Hoseason.

"David kens; David's a good lad.

Ye see, David my man, yon wild Hielandman is a danger to the ship, besides being a rank foe to King George, God bless him!" I had never been so be-Davided since I came on board: but I said Yes, as if all I heard were quite natural.
"The trouble is," resumed the captain, "that all our firelocks, great and little, are in the round-house under this man's nose; likewise the powder.

Now, if I, or one of the officers, was to go in and take them, he would fall to thinking.

But a lad like you, David, might snap up a horn and a pistol or two without remark.